Léon Othenin-Girard

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Books readers love but don't recommend (or warn people away from even while recommending): A thread. Hi, I'm AK, and I write a series people love (privately, in my inboxes) which has won multiple awards and accolades. Here's why people generally don't recommend it. 🧵

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Monthly Disabled Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome! #WriteSky #ActuallyDisabled

long-ish, but in my unhumble opinion very worth it, read about surveillance tech, hollywood, cheap labor and weird israeli guys

early Bluesky was very "don't feed the trolls" as the internet used to be and as I wish all social media still was

this is just fundamentally not fucking true People using AI have been shown to be less capable, less creative and less competent. also yes AI will replace us because why need a team of 5 when you can get one dipshit with an Ai to do it.

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

it's Midsummer so I am contractually obligated to ask you to buy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS, my queer cozy fantasy about an old man cursed with immortality who hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day www.elizmanderson.com/links #LateNightWrite

In honor of FRIENDLY FYRE's #audiobook release, I decided to eat some rocks on camera. Do you like #CozyFantasy? Or #Trans rep? Or eldritch gemstones with an appetite for minerals? Don't let my silly attempt at marketing be in vain! www.tiktok.com/@kia.leep/vi... www.audible.com/pd/Friendly-...

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 ✦ COVER REVEAL ✦ full resolution + process on patreon www.patreon.com/posts/150190...

The amazing @hvmator.bsky.social has done it again! Please enjoy this teaser of our Issue 1 cover 💙💜 The full cover will be in tomorrow’s bonus newsletter! Normally a paid patron perk, we're sending this one to ALL patrons, so sign up for free + be the first to see! 👀 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

Wake Up Dead Man With Big Naturals

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All of my work published in 2025! Huge thanks to all these editors for giving these stories and essay a home 🖤@margotatwell.bsky.social @cold-signal.com @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social @bowerygothic.bsky.social @tundraswanpress.bsky.social

psst, did you know there's a chinese gay god that protects the gays? here's a short story abt him!! thanks to @podcastle.org for being a wonderful host. the show notes are especially touching! podcastle.org/2026/01/06/p...

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Cover Reveal Countdown #9: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT an alien abduction story! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲 thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support 🙏🏻🖤💀 if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link: psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...

OK, we’re in desperation times yet again 😩 Finances are tight, after doing so well at getting out of the hole. But things went quiet and I need to pull myself out again So if you like LGBTQ+ inclusive comics, novels, romances etc, please grab something from my site! bit.ly/3P6TC9E

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It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer! Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves. Go!!!

For the afternoon book crowd. There's a new Inheritance book! I repeat, A NEW INHERITANCE BOOK.

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

Moksha is doing scheduled maintenance. Obviously that's our preferred method for receiving subs to the @apexmag.bsky.social flash contest, but if you need to get your story in and the portal is still closed, you can email me at rebecca.treasure@apexbookcompany.com with your story.

(6) Protests went on from 29th to 30th, and some mercs/provocators burned down bus stations. Not only that, there are broadcasts to attack Chindos(Chinese Indonesians) and repeat the 98 tragedy. This is such a heinous tactic to exploit our collective trauma, tho thankfully most people called it out.

(5) The ojol, Affan Kurniawan, didn't survive. He was just trying to cross the road. The masses were panicking because of the water canon and the tear gas. He was just there DOING HIS JOB. He wasn't the only one mowed down btw, tho thankfully the other one survived.

(3) Then they announced that the MPs are given Rp 50 mil/month pocket money in addition to their salary. Minimum wage in Jakarta is Rp 5mil/month, and in some places it can go as low as Rp 2.1 mil/month. People were rightfully angry, and protests broke out

(2) Honestly the rage has been building ever since they made a human rights violator a president. Raised taxes, cutting healthcare & teachers' wages, destroying Raja Ampat & the Indigenous people there in favor of nickel mining. Also the politicans mocked us while they're draining us.

(1)🚨ALL EYES ON INDONESIA🚨 It's 0.41. A.M. Local time. First they cut off the power in Kwitang & Senen. Then the snipers came. And now they're using live bullets. Just 3 days ago the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission silenced the journalists to not broadcast the protests.

This still feels absolutely surreal, but the announcement is out so I can officially yell about it! My debut novel Cavern F(r)iend will be published by @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social in Winter 2027! Thanks to my agent @ericshowers.bsky.social and my editor Hannah Pierdolla!💜

I spent way too long on this, but I love how it came out. Would appreciate seeing it get some love. 🥹 Three kobolds in a trench coat is my favorite D&D troupe. #kobolds #dndart #pathfinderart

The fog has cleared. The gates are open. Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Today's community drabble: "Offscript" by Léon Othenin-Girard. The theme was "reinvention." Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl #authors #drabble

I recently found had more time on my hands than I had planned. I'm an ESL teacher and many students were on vacation. Don't get me wrong, time is a wonderful thing to have as a writer, but as the saying goes, time is money. I'd appreciate some likes and reposts to help me out. 🧵

I think it's important to never lose sight of the fact that there is nothing organic about the anti-trans legislation. It's all a part of a large pys-op by Christian Nationalist groups. There was actually backlash to early anti-trans bills🧵 wherethereissmoke.substack.com/p/how-big-mo...

For all my new bsky neighbours, hi!!! Want to read a very short story about a trans guy 🐟 trying his best to become the fish man he was always meant to be? Check out my story in @augurmag.bsky.social , it’s one of my proudest tales (and free to read online!): augursociety.org/how-to-breat...

A short blog post about issue 17 of @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social, which I really enjoyed chrisreads.bearblog.dev/magazine-of-... 💙📚

ISSUE 27: ANACHRONISM available July 15th! The anachronism theme brought us such varied, unique takes. We are in love. Leading up to the Issue 27 release, we'll share excerpts from the poems and stories. This poem pulls no punches. Get ready. "For Poppy" by Asa Delaney @unlikelyasa.bsky.social

The Time War has begun! The public beta of Against Time and Death, my duet game of war, self-discovery, and connection across the multiverse, is now live: ickbat.itch.io/against-time... If you loved This Is How You Lose the Time War (and why wouldn't you?!), you're going to love this game.